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Eva's POV

Kalani stopped breathing. Her heartbeat was gone. I shook her body but still, hers just laid there, lifeless.

"Kalani!" I yelled at her. "Wake up god damnit!"

"What's wrong with mom?" A voice suddenly startled me. When I looked behind me, and it was Dakota. Felix came running after them, but it was too late. The kids were here, and we couldn't make them unsee this. But I could save the little ones from the trauma.

I believe these kids have seen too much for the last couple of days to last them a lifetime. And they couldn't have any more of it. I'm afraid their tiny hearts can never stomach it.

"Aunt Eva what's wrong with mom, and where is dad and Eawa?" Rumi asked. Truth be told, she was asking all the questions I didn't have answers to, and I didn't know what to say.

So I looked at the boys with pleading eyes to take them away because I was afraid that my own voice would betray me. It would crack, and that alone was something that I couldn't let happen when I promised.

I promised them their sister back, but now if the father was gone to god knows where, Eawa, in the river for a reason I don't like to think about, and Kalani just laying here, looking dead, I didn't want to say anything.

I'd like to think that maybe Eawa was in the river because she was pushed, not because there might be a possibility that something bad happened to her, like being shot or worse, dead.

The thought of that, Eawa being shot, just left me breathless to a point I knew I could never recover from. So that was something I didn't wanna talk, nor think about. The one thing that was more important right now was the facts.

And the facts being, I didn't know where Eawa and Montero was, but I did know Kalani's state, and I had to save her and this baby. And I knew Montero would never forgive me if they died in my watch. Heck, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if anything befell her and her son.

There was only one person who always was strong to keep the pack together, Enzo.

When he saw his mom like that, just laying on the floor, with no flow of life, no words could suffice how he was feeling. His eyes held all the pain that he tried to hide from his little sisters. The boys knew that this was bad, and in a way, they all had a way in which they reacted.

"Mom?" Charlie's voice called out.

"Let's go, Charlie." Placido pulled him away, so as not to alarm the girls. His own eyes were filled with tears, but he didn't let them be seen by the girls, unlike Charlie who was already a mess. His tears were falling like a freaking flood. Still, his hand was held out, wanting to hold on to Kalani.

"She's okay," I assured him, another lie. "I promise." This time my voice betrayed me by cracking. I quickly looked away, blinking my tears away. I looked back at him and he started walking away with Placido.

I looked back at Kalani, my breaking every two seconds.

"Kalani please...please wake up." I whispered, "I beg you, please wake up. If not for me, for your kids, your husband, for Eawa, please." I begged.

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Enzo's POV (Minutes before running out)

After aunty Eva left to look for Eawa, the car just went on a up raw.

"So we just gonna sit here and wait?" Charlie started.

"That's what aunty Eva said we must do," Dakota replied with her tiny voice.

"And we gonna listen to that?" He heckled us.

"Should we listen to you then?" I turned and looked at him.

"I'm not saying that, it's just-"

"Just keep quiet Li." I sat back. My heart was beating fast, and I couldn't shake off that there was something wrong with Eawa. She's my quad, and if one of us isn't feeling okay, we feel it. And right now, I was feeling it. Like she was hurt bad, and in trouble.

"So you tell me you can't feel it?" He asked.

"Feel what?" I asked, pretending not to understand what was going on. But the real reason why I didn't want to go out there was because of what we might find or see. I've seen too much to last me a lifetime during the past couple of day, and I don't think the twins can see any more of that. They have seen too much, and so have the others.

"Eawa." He whispered. "She's hurt. I feel it." He looked down and started playing with his hands.

"I feel it too," Placido added. I looked at him and he turned away, looking outside the window.

"Me too Zee." Dakota chimed in. For some odd reason, loved calling me Zee. Rumi, out of nowhere, just opened the door of the car, and she just started running towards the blazing gunshots.

"Rumi no!" Dakota screamed. I went after her, and the others followed. When were in the middle of the forest, we started hearing funny animal sounds. we all halted, for like a second and we looked around.

I don't think we had to be told twice to run, not back, but towards the place that we heard guns blazing. We differently didn't want to be eaten by whatever that was out there. We'd rather take our chances with guns.

But when we got there, we also halted. 

Mom...

She was laying on the floor with her legs like she was giving birth. Except she wasn't. Her eyes were closed, and aunty Eva was holding her hand saying something to her incoherently. Rumi walked towards her first. I just stood there, unwilling to move. The only thing I was thinking about was, not again

I can't go over this again. 

Seeing mom semi-dying on us. I can't go through that, not again. I don't think I'm strong enough. so every step I took going forward, I uttered a mini prayer. Everything around me felt like it was muted. The thing I could hear were my footsteps and my silent prayers that I kept muttering. 

I could hear Rumi ask about mom and how she was, and dad and Eawa, and aunt Eva looked at her like she was ready to cry and I just, there is only so much I can take. Every other person thought I was strong enough, but I wasn't. I was just like mom, quick to tears, and very sensitive to a lot of things.

But I had to be strong, for others, mainly the twins. So when aunty Eva asked me to take the twins, and Charlie who had become hysterical, my tears threatened to come out, but I couldn't let them out. 

I was the firstborn after all.

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And I'm back.

Another chapter, and yet another day, and another dramatic chapter. I hope this chapter was fair. And guys, I got a job. I'm an intern, and I truly love my job. Anyways, I love y'all to the moon and back.

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